Influenced Or Confused??
I have been thinking about the difference between "Being Influenced" & "Being Confused”...This phase has been on and off in my life and I am pretty sure most of you would have experienced the same.
It all started with believing in God. In childhood I was forced to believe in god and was never given a choice! Later after years I realized people were following things blindly without their own thought. I decided to not to believe in God because I didn’t know if God exist nor do I know now (And I don’t have the time to invest in finding out the fact)
My childhood was so much influenced with the thought of God, Miracles, Benefits of believing in god; that at times when I would not know what to do. I would just blindly believe in god and pray for good results. Was I confused or was I influenced (forcefully taught)??? Too soon to answer this question...let me keep it aside for a while
People chose topics in engineering based on how easy it would be to get good marks/ to even pass the subject. I always believed that this education system was not the ultimate test and took up topics which were not the usual ones. (Though I failed miserably in getting good marks :-)) No regrets though because I am happy with my current job
There was a time when I did pray to god that if you help me clear the exams I will visit you ( with so many clauses in it, that I will skip my meal, I will visit you bare foot and what not !!)
After this phase things were going on pretty smooth and I CHOSE to be an Atheist.
Now it’s the Mission of Marriage. My family started consulting Astrologers, Visit Temples to pray God to get me married to a good girl. They believed that these were the things that mattered for a happy married life!
I was asked to wear a silver ring with some stone in it which was very much required based on the planetary positions for my marriage to occur. Initially I just wore it without any questions being asked, thinking it would make them happy. Later with time my thinking kicked in and I decided to get rid of the ring …but then I did get confused...And had the following thoughts in my mind
a) Will this ring help me in my
b) No harm in just wearing it whether it helps or not...But still opens up a channel of good luck if the stone were really to influence my life …
c) How in the hell would a planet/star influence my life??
Ufffhh …A engineering graduate by education and a software professional involved in the development of Next-Gen products believing or confused around such things. I wish my manager doesn’t get to know of these things...He would kick the hell out of me and would wonder if I should be given new responsibilities when I myself am dependent on as powerful as a RING!
People look up to astrological predictions based on stars. But science tells me that there are stars which have died but then they were so many million light years away from us that the light of the star is still traveling!! So are we supposed to be influenced on stars which do not exist???
Do we really need to know our future ? If we knew the future would we live the present moment ?
If people were to be told that "No matter what he/she would become rich" they would just stop doing what ever they were supposed to do until they were rich! If people were told that "No matter what they would never be rich " they would still do the same thing.
I chose to get out of such things! I don’t want a ring to influence me! I would rather want my powerful processor to influence my life
After much thought I think people get into such things for various reasons
Or are people really not aware of what they want? I believe that there is a very thin line between “Being Influenced” and “Being Confused”
When one happens to be confused, he/she starts looking out for solutions. The laziness factor being the strongest (what an irony!!), in most human beings, decides to chose the path chosen my people around you. We see people who are successful with 10 rings on all their fingers! And decide to go for it. Did we think if we were being influenced or were we confused as to what next?? I guess the answer is mostly No.
At this point in time when man kind is busy with all possible technological innovations do we really want to be in the world where we want inanimate things / things that don’t even exist to influence us?
Why doesn’t a human being think before Entering the Influenced/Confused State? One simple Question (Life is Simple .Do Not Make it Complicated) would make a lot of difference
Is this what I want? Before getting influenced
What do I want? When confused.
Am I posting this in a confused state or am I posting it on being influenced with my thoughts? Well...No Comments J
Don’t get confusingly influenced or influence confusingly!!
3 comments:
I still remember the bare foot climbing of Tirupathi :)
I was also told by one astrologer that if I marry a foreigner I wont have kids...but now I'm going to have one!
I was told I'll get leprosy and what not!
It's all intimidation techniques, used to weaken you ashte.
I remember the Tirupathi event as well. The only reason I can think of why our ancestor passed on a set of good and bads, values and the idea of God ect was to put in some social and moral angle to our life.
A smart individual in the current world should be able to reason things out scientifically and logically on every issue in his/her life.... But not all issues in our life have ideal/immediate solutions when you start logically analysing them....and that is where God and belief comes into picture.
In this specific example - the ring will no way expedite you marriage BUT it will give your family and you a hope...that the wedding is around the corner... and this hope works as a positive energy in motivating one n all to work toward the goal...and that is why you might have heard people say... you need to believe in it for it to work ;)
The catch 22 situations we face in the current world is that to believe in it while we know its not going to make a difference in you life....well that is how it it!
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